We survey the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of 1,000 large US companies to learn their views about
corporate cash holdings. Specifically, we investigate managerial views about the determinants of cash holdings
and whether they believe that corporate governance affects a firm's level of cash holdings, spending of cash,
and value of cash holdings. We find their views provide support for an optimal tradeoff approach to cash
holdings, limited support for a financing hierarchy explanation, mixed support for arguments that financial
constraints affect a firm's cash holdings, and generally no support for most agency cost explanations. The
survey results show that managers believe the effectiveness of a firm's corporate governance structures may
affect its cash holdings and spending of cash, but not the value of its cash holdings.